A complete discipleship system for leading intentional preteen and youth ministry
In this video, discover a simple yet powerful Discipleship Pathway to build trust, spark real conversations, and guide students toward a deeper faith!
So how do you make disciples? What is the process someone goes through to grow a deep faith? A disciple is someone who walks in obedience to God. When people first come to faith they must spend time in God’s word and time with God’s people in order to grow. So how do we walk with them and help them to grow in obedience?
The Discipleship Pathway is a tool that walks you step-by-step through a proven strategy for making disciples. It teaches a simple, practical, and straightforward approach to discipleship that can help you train and equip leaders.
The Discipleship Pathway as your road map for disciple development. It’s intended to guide your steps, giving you and your small group leaders insights on how to start the disciple-making process and what to do next.
You will need one The Discipleship Pathway for each student or volunteer you wish to develop. Because making disciples involves people, and people are different, you’ll use The Discipleship Pathway to create a unique plan for each individual’s spiritual growth.
Who are you discipling? What do you know about them? Fill in as much information about the student as you can think of. The goal is to establish a deep enough relationship that you are aware of the student’s feelings, fears, and faith.
As this relationship grows, you will begin to share personal stories about your faith journey. You will have to take the lead in this area. Most students won’t share what’s going on in their lives until they’ve heard about yours. Be open. Share about the victories and failures you’ve experienced following Jesus. Freely communicating your weaknesses provides a safe space for students to become vulnerable and transparent.
To help students open up and share their stories of faith and doubt, we have to be intentional about the questions we ask. These questions seek more than a simple “right” and “wrong” answer but a personal one. Who is Jesus? is a very different question than Who is Jesus to you?
Knowledge without action will never lead to transformation. Because of this, application is the necessary next step. What are we going to do with what we’ve learned? As students think through different ways to apply what God has revealed to them, we must make sure their steps are specific and practical. Growth happens best when we make a plan to follow through with clear and measurable actions.
The last step is accountability. After a student has decided how they will put God’s truth into practice, we must check in with them to make sure they follow through. A brief discussion about how their application went, whether good or bad, will help them sharpen their walk with the Lord.
The Discipleship Pathway will give a framework and common language to use as you encourage your people to be disciples makers. Remember, people want to focus on disciples making unless they feel confident that they can do it. The Discipleship Pathway will give them the confidence and expertise to make disciples.
Deep Discipleship Students is a complete curriculum and system with everything you need for ministry to junior high and high school students.
